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title: Webfinger errors on 1.20.9
author: notabug.org/aab
time: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:51:23 UTC
status: closed
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author: notabug.org
time: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:51:23 UTC
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I get docens of these messages per minute: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Bad resource in /var/www/gnusocial/.well-known/webfinger/index.php:26\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/gnusocial/.well-known/webfinger/index.php on line 26\n' I really don't know if it is a bug or a misconfiguration; I just followed instructions from docs, and changed example.com for gnusocial.net.
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author: notabug.org
time: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:11:16 UTC
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Is that in gnusocial.net? If so, why do you need to use that script?
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author: notabug.org
time: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:10:26 UTC
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Yes, on gnusocial.net. I don't get it... Is it not needed? I just enabled it because it is in https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/1.20.x/DOCUMENTATION/SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATORS/socialfy-another-domain
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author: notabug.org
time: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:19:11 UTC
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It is not needed. As the name suggests (or at least, intends to), "socialfy-another-domain" should only be used when you're using the same GNU social with another domain, subdomain or path. E.g.: When I use: me@diogo.site, it will present itself as diogo@loadaverage.org . You would use that (actually, the one in nightly and not that one) when: **domain.tld/gnusocial (as webfinger has to be available in the root of the domain)** social.domain.tld (you could insert this in domain.tld to allow your users shorter webfinger ids) or yet domain.tld + alias.tld (in which you would add this in alias.tld's root) The bold one is the key case to use the stuff available in that directory.
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